Jolla’s First Smartphone

Jolla has just showed off its first smartphone, which will cost about
four hundred Euros – the equivalent of $510. It’ll sport a 4.5-inch
display, 8-megapixel camera, 16 gigs of internal storage, a microSD
slot, and a dual core processor. It’ll run the company’s Sailfish OS,
but will be compatible with Android apps. However the company hasn’t
said just how compatible it’ll be nor how these Android apps will be
acquired by users.
For those who may not know, Jolla is a small start-up company based
in Finland that’s continuing the N9 work abandoned by Nokia. It’s made
up of the directors and core professionals of the N9 project who left
Nokia and formed Jolla back in 2011.

he phone is currently only available in European countries and
doesn’t even have a set release date yet beyond sometime in 2013. There
are three pre-order options that include your typical basic pre-order
package for no additional cost, a T-shirt and priority pre-order status
for forty Euros, and a hundred Euro option that gives you one hundred
Euros off the phone as well as an amalgamation of additional pre-order
items.
Is one hundred Euros really worth the risk involved though? How would
you feel using a phone that doesn’t have all of the latest apps your
iPhone and Android toting friends carry?